ABSTRACT
93 https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429267949/a7894cf8-f1be-4da6-a5b8-25af3ccb2a6d/content/inline6.tif"/> When he was a young man, Xuanzang had once been so absorbed in reading the Sutra of the Glorious Decease that he forgot to sleep. "There are four places," the Buddha is supposed to have said in this sutra, "which the believing man should visit with feelings of reverence and awe"—where the Buddha was born, the place at which he received enlightenment, the place at which he preached the first sermon, and the place at which he died. 1
